Doordash is a delightful food delivery in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Boston, and Palo Alto, California. DoorDash enables small businesses to provide its customers with local delivery services. Doordash builds an on-demand delivery network for local cities.

What Problem did Doordash founders see ?
When they were thinking about "How to build technology for small business" they happened to meet a small business owner to understand her problems and out of experiments got introduced to a new problem "DELIVERY" and started focussing on it.How did Doordash test the Hypothesis of their IDEA?
The team spent an afternoon and created a simple experiment with Restaurant delivery and put a quick landing page and stuck up some pdf menus found on internet put their cell number and launched the website named Paloaltodelivery.com. The first customer ordered a Thai Food and learned how the delivery thing works without drivers and algorithms, rest is the below story.

FREE TOOLS USED BY DOORDASH IN THE BEGINNING

SQUARE to charge all of Doordash customers

Google Docs to track the orders

Apple Find My Friends to track the drivers

FUNDS RAISED TO SCALE DOORDASH
Raised $17.3 million Series A round of funding led by Sequoia with some other big VCs participation.

How does DoorDash founders pitch their company ?
“We don’t consider ourselves a food-delivery company, but a tech and logistics company that just happens to deal in food,” co-founder Stanley Tang says. “We’re building out the technology and infrastructure to become a super reliant and efficient delivery network.”

Why did Sequoia invest in DoorDash Startup ?
It's the growth and consumer response that led Sequoia to invest in Doordash. Also